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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by munk-a on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:51PM (#28753324)
These mitigations wouldn't be in place if there wasn't a pandemic on - the faster we can solve that the faster we can open things up again.

And this problem might be unsolvable - if that's the case then the vaccine mandates (which do lower risk) will probably become as set in stone as MMR shots which, if you went to school in America, you almost certainly got.

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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by rwcarlsen on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:01PM (#28753444)
You mean the shots that provide sterilizing immunity for diseases that have orders of magnitude higher mortality rates for children and healthy people? None of which is true with COVID - and anyone that disagrees can just look up the stats on the CDCs website and read about sterilizing immunity on wikipedia.
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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by steakknife on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @09:48AM (#28759442)
1) Sterilizing immunity meaningless and unscientific: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/steriliz...

2) Sterilizing immunity is a pointless distraction. Seatbelts don't provide 100% protection in a car crash, surgeons washing their hands doesn't prevent 100% of infection, and having smoke alarms and two points of egress in a bedroom will not 100% save your life during a disaster. In fact, I can't even think of a mandated public safety feature that is 100% effective.

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